In order to get use out of tagging content, a system of user ranking must be in place to give relevancy to specific tags, or else you will run into the meta keyword problem, where anyone can tag their content as 'Britney Spears', and become hot content, even if the content refers to something totally unrelated. This could be used for "Spagging," a term I just coined that refers to spamming content with popular tag types to drive traffic to unrelated content.
There are a couple of promising algorithms out there that may be the answer to tagging relevancy, one uses a system similar to the Google PageRank algorithm to determine UserRank, and TagRank when deciding the validity of a tagged piece of content. The document can be found at User and Tag Ranking.
Another similar option is Contextual Authority Tagging, which uses a different algorithm, but achieves the same idea to allow content to be tagged within a trusted context.
Keep an eye on BitFlipper for more commentary on the usefullness, or lack thereof of the current tagging trend.
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In order to get use out of tagging content, a system of user ranking must be in place to give relevancy to specific tags, or else you will run into the meta keyword problem, where anyone can tag their content as 'Britney Spears', and become hot content, even if the content refers to something totally unrelated. This could be used for "Spagging," a term I just coined that refers to spamming content with popular tag types to drive traffic to unrelated content.
There are a couple of promising algorithms out there that may be the answer to tagging relevancy, one uses a system similar to the Google PageRank algorithm to determine UserRank, and TagRank when deciding the validity of a tagged piece of content. The document can be found at User and Tag Ranking. Another similar option is Contextual Authority Tagging, which uses a different algorithm, but achieves the same idea to allow content to be tagged within a trusted context.
Keep an eye on BitFlipper for more commentary on the usefullness, or lack thereof of the current tagging trend.